Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate she has made of the total amount of funding from the public purse given by her Department to (a) civil society and (b) campaigning bodies in each of the last five years.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) came to existence in July 2016. DIT secures UK and global prosperity by promoting and financing international trade and investment, and championing free trade. The Department does not specifically record this type of funding in its accounting records, and a search of other records has not identified any funding of civil society or campaign groups in this time period.